“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
"Little Gidding" ~~T.S. Eliot
“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”
- Clint Eastwood
“Just do it.”
- Nike, Inc.
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
ان تموت بشرف خير لك من ان تحيا بذل
try to understand the real meaning of this phrase because it has a great meaning specially for me
I like Alice Miller´s quotes:
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
Oscar Wilde:
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one’s nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Genius is born–not paid.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I can resist anything but temptation.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- “I think I need a drink” - “Almost everybody does, only they don’t know”
Ch. Bukowski
“Ahhh, there’s just one more thing…” Columbo
I just wanted to make a note about the following phrase:
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
(Farsi) جوجه رو آخر پاییز می شمرن
The literal translation of the Persian text is “baby chicks are counted at the end of autumn”. It is said to someone who seems to be reaching a conclusion too quickly.
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At that moment I imagined that the thread had been deleted by the LingQ authorities for some reason related to the advertisement in the thread.)
Even a dog speaks Japanese in Japan. “wan-wan.”
Even a dog speaks English in the U. S. “bow-wow.”
Even a dog speaks Korean in Korea. “mong mong”
Even a cat speaks Korean in Korea. “Yaong”
Even a chicken speaks Korean in Korea. “Ko ki oh! Ko ki oh!”
Even a cat speaks English in America. “Meow”
Even a chicken speaks English in America. “Cock-a-doodle-do!”
Some people speak english[sic] instead of English. I wonder if they don’t have a shift key in their keyboard. “i wanna practice speaking english with u.”
While I have strength I will fight and when they run out, I will continue without them.
Perhaps the English language should drop the use of a capital letter for the names of languages. It does not seem to have any useful function. English no longer puts full stops after letters in abbreviations. N.S.W. has become NSW, U.S.A. has become USA. I don’t think the language has suffered from it.
Yes, I know this is off the topic.
So,
Why is there something rather than nothing?
My cat can speak. I asked her what two minus two is. She said nothing.
“What is the difference between ignorance and apathy?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care.”
Whatever you do when you’re procrastinating should be your full-time job.
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt